Sander Lee’s Publications

AWARD:

Keene State College Faculty Award for Distinction in Research and Scholarship (2006)

 

SCHOLARSHIP AND RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Scholarly Publications:

Scholarly Books:

1) Eighteen Woody Allen Films Analyzed: Anguish, God and Existentialism, published by             McFarland Publishing Co., 2002, ISBN 0-7864-1319-0.

2) Woody Allen’s Angst: Philosophical Commentaries on his Serious Films, published by             McFarland Publishing Co., 1997, ISBN 0-7864-0207-5.

3) Inquiries into Values: The Inaugural Session of the International Society for Value Inquiry, editor. Volume 11 in the series “Problems in Contemporary Philosophy” published by The Edwin Mellen Press, 1988. ISBN 0-88946-338-7

           

 

Forthcoming Essay:

1) “Was Odo a Collaborator?” in Star Trek and Philosophy edited by Kevin Decker and Jason Eberl, Open Court Press.

Published Essays:

1) “Meaning and Freedom on the Island” in Lost and Philosophy, edited by Sharon Kaye, Blackwell Philosophy and Popular Culture Series, Blackwell Pub., 2007.

2) “John Drake in Greeneland” in The Philosophy of TV Noir edited by Steven M. Sanders and Aeon J. Skoble as part of the Philosophy and Popular Culture series published by the University Press of Kentucky, 2007.

3) “Hitchcock’s Existentialism: Anguish, Despair, and Redemption in Breakdown” in Alfred Hitchcock and Philosophy, edited by Dave Baggett, Open Court Press, 2006.

4) “Rights, Morality, and Faith in the Light of the Holocaust” in Genocide and Human Rights, edited by John Roth, Palgrave MacMillan, 2005, ISBN 1-4039-3547-5.

5) “The Dangers of Hedonism: A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy,” in Woody Allen and Philosophy, edited by Mark Conard and Aeon Skoble, Open Court, 2004, ISBN 0-8126-9453-8.

6) “Scapegoating, the Holocaust, and McCarthyism in Billy Wilder’s Stalag 17,”

Film and Philosophy, Volume 8, 2004 Special Interest Edition.

7) “Platonic Themes in Chris Marker’s La Jetée” in  Film and Knowledge: Essays in the Integration of Images and Ideas edited by Kevin L. Stoehr, McFarland Publishing Co., 2002, ISBN 0-7864-1320-4. The essay may also be accessed at http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/4/jetee.html.

8) “Moral Relativism and Despair in Graham Greene’s The Ministry of Fear” in Perceptions of Religious Faith in the Works of Graham Greene edited by Thomas Hill, Peter Lang, 2001.  ISBN 3906767884.

9) “Existential Themes in Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors,

Woody Allen:A Casebook, edited by Kimball King, Routledge, 2001. ISBN 081533124X

10) “The Screaming of the Lambs: Philosophical Themes in Demme’s Silence of

the Lambs,” Explorations of Value, edited by Thomas Magnell, Value Inquiry

Book Series, Rodopi Press. ISBN 90-420-0254-9, 1997, pp. 189-198.

11) “Paternalism” in the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics edited by Patricia Werhane and R. Edward Freeman, Blackwell Publishers, 1997.

12) “Value Inquiry: Philosophy and Film,” Introductory Editorial essay for a special issue The Journal of Value Inquiry on philosophic themes related to the contemporary visual arts, Vol. 29, No. 4, Dec. 1995.

13) “Never Again: The Protection of International Human Rights,” The Social Power of Ideas, edited by Yeager Hudson and W. Creighton Peden, The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995,

ISBN 0-7734-9043-4.

14) “Philosophical Themes in Woody Allen’s Husbands and Wives”, Film and Philosophy, Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 1995.

15) “A Critique of Henry Veatch’s Human Rights: Fact or Fancy?,” A Quarter Century of Value Inquiry, edited by Richard T. Hull, Value Inquiry Book Series, Rodopi Press, 1994. ISBN 90-5183-672-4, 1994. This volume is drawn from the Presidental Addresses of the American Society for Value Inquiry over the entirety of its history. My address is reprinted, with permission, from Volume III, No. 1, Spring 1991 of Lyceum, the publication of the Saint Anselm’s College Philosophy Club.

16) “Repaying the Wronged,” Rights, Justice, and Community, The Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 0-7734-9599-1, 1992.

14) “The Value of Universal Ignorance in Politics: An Alternative Account of Madison’s Justifications of Participatory Democracy,” Contemporary Philosophy, Vol. XIV, Number 2, March/April 1992.

17) “Alfred Hitchcock: Misogynist or Feminist?” Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities, Vol. 9, Number 3, Summer 1990.

18) “Creating a Book Review Department,” editorial essay, The Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 25, Number 4, October 1991.

19) “The Law and Morality in War Crimes Trials,” To Be A Victim: Encounters with  Crime and Injustice, Plenum Press, 1991, pp. 333-356. ISBN 0-306-43962.

20) “Democracy, Rights, & Conflict in the Soviet Union,” No. 6, Spring/Summer 1988, Democracy and Socialism.

21) “The Essence of the Human Experience in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet,”

Inquiries into Values and Ethical Views: The Inaugural Sessions of the International Society for Value Inquiry, The Edwin Mellen Press, 1988,

pp. 569-584. ISBN 0-88946-338-7

22) “Philosophical Themes in Hitchcock’s Rear Window,” Special Issue on “Film and Philosophy,” Volume 7, Number 2, Winter 1988, Post Script: Essays in Film and The Humanities.

23) “An Epistemic Discussion of Democracy in The Federalist,” in The Federalist Papers: An Explanation and Defense of Ideas and Issues in the U.S. Constitution: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Conference on Value Inquiry, edited by James B. Wilbur, published by the State University College of Arts & Sciences at Geneseo, New York, 1988.

24) “Liberty, Fraternity, and Equality in Gandhi’s Social Thought,” The Journal of Social Philosophy. Vol. XVII, Number 3, Fall 1986 (appeared Spring 1987).

25) “Reverse Discrimination and Social Justice,” Philosophy Research Archives. Vol. XI,1985. (appeared March 1986)

26) “The Failure of Sex and Love in the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre,” Philosophy Research Archives. Vol. XI,1985. (appeared March 1986)

27) “Existential Themes in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock,” Philosophy Research Archives. Vol. XI,1985. (appeared March 1986)

28) “The Central Role of Universality in a Sartrean Ethics,”

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.  Vol. XLVI, No. 1,            

September 1985.

29) “The Status of the Debate on Rights in the USSR,”

Studies in Soviet Thought. Vol. 30, No. 2, August 1985. 

30) “Prospects for Peace: A Philosophical Approach,”

Peace and Change. Vol. X, No. 3/4, Fall/Winter 1984.

31) “Sartre’s Acceptance of the Principle of Universality,”

Philosophy Research Archives. Vol. X,1984.

32) “Henry B. Veatch and the Problem of a Noncognitivist Ethics,”

The Georgetown Symposium on Ethics: Essays in Honor of Henry Babcock Veatch, edited by Rocco Porreco. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1984.

ISBN 0-8191-3777-4.

33) ‘”Sense and Sensibility”: Sartre’s Theory of the Emotions,’ The Review of Existential Psychology  & Psychiatry, Vol. XVII, No. 1, 1983.

 

Book Reviews:

1)             Echoes from the Holocaust: Reflections on a Dark Time, edited by Alan             Rosenberg and Gerald Myers, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1,             1989.

2)            For Righteousness’ Sake: Contemporary Moral Philosophies, by A. Roy             Eckardt, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1989.

3)            Dialogues with Scientists and Sages: The Search for Unity by Renée Weber, Idealistic Studies, Vol. XIX, No. 1, January 1989.

4)              The Moses of Rovno by Douglas K. Huneke, Holocaust and Genocide                              Studies, Volume III, No. 1, 1988.

5)              Sartre and Marxist Existentialism by Thomas Flynn, The Journal of Social  Philosophy, Vol. XVI, No. 2 (Summer, 1985).

6)              The Foundation and Structure of Sartrean Ethics by Thomas C. Anderson, The             Howard University Student Philosophy Journal, Vol. I, No. 1 (Spring 1985)

7)             Rationality in Philosophy and Science by Charles Verharen, The Review

                 of Metaphysics, Vol. XXXVII, No. 4  (June 1984).

8)             Modern Process Thought by James Gray, The Review of Metaphysics,

                  Vol. XXXVII, No. 3 (March 1984).

9)             Dance of the Dialectic: A Dramatic Dialogue Presenting Hegel’s                                 Philosophy of Religion by Edward Beach, The Review of Metaphysics,                         Vol. XXXVI, No. 2.  (December 1982)

10)             Alienation, Praxis, and Techne in the Thought of Karl Marx by Karl Axelos, The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. XXX, No. 4. (June 1977)

 

Brief Publications in Print

1) “My Top Ten Films” in the Australian online journal Senses of Cinema, 2000. The essay may be accessed at http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/top_tens/archive00.html#lee

2) “Internet Explorer Does Not Make Bill Gates the Devil,” The Keene Sentinel,

May 24, 1998.

3) “Woody Allen’s Philosophical Allure”, The Newsletter of the American Society for Value Inquiry, Spring 1994, pp. 8-9.

4) “Silencing the Sexists,” Keene State Today, Vol. VIII, Nos. 1 & 2, Winter 1993, pp.             20-22.

5)  “No more excuses about the Balkans,” The Keene Sentinel, December 21, 1992.

6) “Can Pro-choice Doctors Oppose Gender-based Abortions?,” The Keene                          Sentinel, June 19, 1989.

7) “Hannah & Her Sisters, A Philosophical Discussion,” The Howard                                  University Student Philosophy Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1 (April 1986) 

8) “Can You Accept a Job You Find Unethical?,” National Business                                     Employment Weekly, August 19,1984. 

9) “Anxiety and Liberation,” Science of Thought Review, Vol. LXI, No. 2,                           February 1982.

 

Newspaper articles about my work:

“Educators Learn to Teach the Horrific,” by Keith Meatto, The Concord Monitor, July 15, 2002.

“An Analysis of Woody Allen Films,” by Alice Fuld, Spotlight, The Keene Sentinel, March 20, 1997, pp 18-19.

 “Lee studies the Master of Suspense,” Monadnock Profile, The Keene Sentinel,

October 31, 1992, pp 1, 18

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